Authorities are looking for a man they say fatally shot a woman and left her body in a ditch, officials said.

The shooting happened around 3 a.m. Thursday near Level Land Road and Wright School Road in Anderson County, according to the coroner's office.

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Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman said a man and two women were in a truck when the man shot one of the women.

The woman's body was found in a ditch, Boseman said.

He said the man drove away in the woman's truck and left the truck at the intersection of Scott Road and Due West Highway. Boseman said the other woman was being interviewed where the victim's body was found when he arrived.

The victim is a 45-year-old woman from Pelzer. Her name has not been released.